AMD Radeon R9 350 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 350 and NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

AMD Radeon R9 350

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 350

Videocard is newer: launch date 10 year(s) 10 month(s) later
3.1x more core clock speed: 925 MHz vs 300 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 110 nm
16x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 128 MB
2.3x more memory clock speed: 1125 MHz (4500 MHz effective) vs 500 MHz

Launch date	12 June 2015 vs 9 August 2004
Core clock speed	925 MHz vs 300 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 110 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	1125 MHz (4500 MHz effective) vs 500 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

3.8x lower typical power consumption: 25 Watt vs 95 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt vs 95 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 350
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

Name	AMD Radeon R9 350	NVIDIA Quadro FX 540
Geekbench - OpenCL	9926
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	2609
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	2609
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3911
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3911
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	9664
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	9664
PassMark - G3D Mark		81
PassMark - G2D Mark		294

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R9 350	NVIDIA Quadro FX 540
Essentials
Architecture	Tobago	Curie
Launch date	12 June 2015	9 August 2004
Place in performance rating	585	588
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Code name		NV43 A2
Launch price (MSRP)		$299
Price now		$59.99
Value for money (0-100)		1.71
Technical info
Core clock speed	925 MHz	300 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	110 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	1421 GFLOPS
Pipelines	768
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	95 Watt	25 Watt
Texture fill rate		2.4 GTexel / s
Transistor count		146 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2 x DisplayPort, DVI	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDCP
Number of simultaneous displays	4
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length		198 mm
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12	9.0c
OpenGL	4.3	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	72 GB/s	8 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1125 MHz (4500 MHz effective)	500 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3
Technologies
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)